[size=125]Chapter 12
Woody and the clones finally reached the top shelf. After searching through every single shelf and only finding droids they had come to the last one. It was full of pieces of plastic and had many different parts from toys that were unidentifiable. As they searched around the leading clone officer named Tony suddenly stopped in his tracks realizing the truth.
“He isn’t here?!?!”
Woody slowly turned around to face him. “You mean we might have been
tricked into coming up here?”
“That is correct. We are in for trouble now. Our plans have obviously been foiled and a stout attack will most likely ensue from the droids in the next ten minutes. We must figure out our positions and what we can hold as defense. If we are to be outmatched, we won’t be outwitted. Clone troops…scatter and find coverage. Woody and Jesse, go find out if there is any other exit from this place. Perhaps there is a secret exit from this top shelf.”
“Yes, sir”
Woody and Jesse quickly searched around the corners of the shelf while the clones quickly gathered pieces of plastic that were lying around. Soon a adequate defensive position was ready for any attack. Soon the readying clones started to hear marching.
“Here they come boys. They most likely will use airplanes to come up to the top shelf and also droids through the bottom shelfs. It will be a double staged attack. Keep your eyes open. We only have this large plane in front of us to defend and it should be pretty easy as long as we keep our heads down and don’t jump out.”
Woody and Jesse had just gotten to the second corner when the first wave attacked. With agile speed three droid powered machines suddenly appeared over the crevice. Ten droids quickly dismounted and charged the defenses. Quick fire from the clones halted all of them except for the battle droids which pulled up their shields. The clones poured heavy fire into them but the droids continued their steady march. The machines had gone back for more reinforcements so the battle droids were the only living thing that was an enemy for the clones. Right before the droids reached the defenses three clones rushed out and placing their guns inside of the shields fired two rounds into them. The droids fell like dead birds. The clones quickly dragged the droids into the defenses and a specialty clone with special purple markers sprang into action. Placing screwdriver and blade to the droids he successfully detached the shields from the droids. He then placed the shield machines in front of the defenses to help the clones. The idea worked perfectly. As soon as more buzzing was heard the shields went up and as the droids appeared just as quickly as before the shields blocked major attacks and fire while they allowed clone fire to eat up the droids.
Back on the ground the commanding droid was having a word with the Emperor.
“They have great defenses up there sir. They also have begun to use our battle droid shields to protect themselves. Every reinforcement we send up is cut to pieces. What should we do?”
“Blast them out! They must be rid of before they destroy half of our recon forces.”
“Roger, roger!”
The emperor turned to Anakin. “Your forces are causing quite the problem. Maybe we could do some sort of a treaty or deal with them?”
Anakin couldn’t help but smile. “They are the best forces the Alliance has to offer. They were here to help rescue that one toy but since he isn’t there they have chosen to do another mission of their own accordance.”
Woody and Jesse quickly returned to Tony who was working on a plastic break on a private.
“A word with you sir.”
“Yes, did you find something?”
“Yes we did sir. There is a small opening in the wall which leads down to the floor. We don’t know what is down there but the hole is total blackness.”
“Hammy, not a good sign when no light gets in. Have you tried getting inside yet?”
“No sir, we thought it best to report it before we tried any drastic measures seeing the position we are in.”
“Yes, our position is nice but if the Empire gets smart they will begin to bombard us. They know that we can’t run around all day and that eventually they will overpower us and treat us as criminals. We will lose some twenty good clones for a ruined mission. That won’t go well with the Alliance.”
“Maybe we could escape with a counter attack?”
Tony looked at Woody with a questioning glance. “No, that would just make our efforts quicker to death. Once we got down we could only fight to the death or captivity. We have the advantage up here. We must hope that someone at the Alliance meeting realizes we have left and send out some reinforcements to rescue the rescuers.”
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